IPCC’s missing pathways to real climate solutions

A gender transformative and rights-based policy approach to climate modelling is needed

There are three types of climate change denier, and most of us are at least one

The treatment of Thunberg, and the vigour with which people push away reminders of that which they would rather not deal with, illustrate …

Simply put: How green is our house

COP26 compendium: Watch how China turned world’s largest polluter

Till the early 2000s, the US, EU, UK, Russia, Australia, Canada and Japan dominated global emissions. And then China became a factory for the …

State action plans on climate change need upscaling and capacity enhancement

The revision of state action plans must be accompanied with a long-term strategy for effective climate actions

‘A wake-up call’: Why this student is suing the government over the financial risks of climate change

Katta O’Donnell argues Australia’s poor climate policies — ranked among the lowest in the industrialised world — put the …

Biden’s transformational challenge

Though the US is no longer addicted to coal, it is completely sold on the idea of cheap energy, writes Sunita Narain

18 African countries yet to link health to climate action plans: WHO

Only 29 countries have developed and implemented the health-related National Adaptation Plan to mitigate climate change risks

Tourism in India amid climate challenges calls for stringent policymaking

Adopting resource management technology, creating resilient infrastructure and promoting off-season tourism are key to easing environmental …

CoP26: China’s plan to cut down its emissions

Climate impact and tourism: Old travel calendars are not relevant any more

Our collective responsibility is to be mindful of our travel privileges, treatment of landscapes and the unequal burdens locals bear

UNFCCC calls for transformational change to fight climate crisis

Countries have also been urged to design and implement policies in line with the Paris Agreement goals 

Simply put: New Zealand unanimously passes climate change law

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Ranking of top climate change performers disregards consumption question

Reducing consumption needs to be a central axis of the global mitigation agenda

New US climate pledge: Cut emissions 50% this decade, but can Biden make it happen?

Industrial reality is the chief concern: Cutting emissions by half within a decade implies transforming the electricity system, transportation, …

Stockholm syndrome: What should ‘+50’ be about

The 50th anniversary celebration of the Stockholm conference should be about our common future, not the divisions of the past

High Road to Dubai COP28: Fossil fuel lobbyists crawled into ongoing Bonn climate meet, says research

Lobbyists are there to push the agenda of fossil expansion forward to continue to rake in profits, notes research

Stockholm+50: Little to cheer

The Stockholm Conference of 1972 had put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. Today, over 176 countries have …

Climate justice, now: Latest IPCC report just told us why we need that

IPCC’s latest climate report provides evidence that climate-justice needs to be at the centre of global policymaking 

Climate Emergency CoP 25: New index makes scathing critique of climate laggards

Approval of Adani mine makes Australian government an “increasingly regressive force”  

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Climate-linked health impacts not a priority yet, says WHO

Lack of funding is one of the reasons for the low priority

What the tourism sector can learn from Cape Town’s drought

The 2015-2018 drought, one of the longest and the worst to have affected Cape Town, affected tourism badly

Summers may last 6 months, winters only 2: Recent study

Between 1952 and 2011, summer duration increased to 95 from 78 days. In winters, it decreased to 73 from 76 days

Youth's demand for climate action an 'unmistakable message': UN climate chief

At the ongoing UNFCCC conference in Bonn, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa asked everyone to take part in this 'fight of …

Kampala Declaration on climate change, human mobility now has 48 African countries as members

As many as 105 million people could become internal migrants within the African continent in a business-as-usual scenario